Motivational Quotes

Business

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Business

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John